Radhika Ponnam

+1-813-***-**** ad4gnx@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/radhika-ponnam-8b18b517a/

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Software Quality Assurance/Manual Test Engineer with 10 + years of experience with a demonstrated history of delivering high-quality software products for Finance, Educational, and Social Media domains industries on Desktop, Web-based, and Mobile applications.

Skilled in Automation and Manual Testing, End-to-End testing, Integration Testing, API/web service testing, Test Data Management, Programming languages (Java), SQL, and a strong understanding of application security.

Strong knowledge of software development methodologies including the Agile methodology, Waterfall Model.

Experienced in manual testing focusing on Functional Testing and non-functional Testing.

Experienced in Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing, UI Testing, Database Testing, Security Testing, Regression Testing, Browser Compatibility, Performance Testing, API Testing, End-to-End testing, and User Acceptance Testing.

Involved in various initiatives covering FSS Analysis, Requirements Gathering, Test Plan preparation Test Case preparation, and Test Completion report.

Proficient in Defect Reporting and Tracking throughout the entire defect life cycle.

Expertise in using Test management tools like JIRA (Bug Reporting) for Test Management and Defect Tracking processes.

Involved in Status meetings with Clients and the Dev team.

Experience in the preparation of Test reports to share with the customer.

Experience Web services API testing using Postman with documentation tools like Swagger.

Experience in Selenium Automation Testing using Java.

Involve with multiple test automation framework tools, as in Data Driven and Page Object models (POM).

hands-on experience with cloning projects and performing pull and push operations on GitHub.

Performed Mobile App Testing Using Test Fight, P-cloudy, Android, IOS, and Mobile Safari browser.

Experience in executing manual testing for UI.

Worked on DML process for Database Testing using SQL

Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Strong Analytical skills, excellent communication, and organizational skills, able to work independently as well as in a team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Skills/Technology: Functional, Regression & Automation Testing

Programming language: Java and SQL

Databases: SQL. And DynamoDB

Test Management Tools: JIRA, TestFlight, P-cloudy, Swagger

Testing Automation Framework: Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, JMeter, Postman

Types of Manual Testing: GUI, Sanity, Regression, E2E, and API-Postman

Operating systems: Windows, iOS, MacOS

Environment: Agile methodology, Waterfall Model

EDUCATION:

MBA Finance and Marketing, Andhra University, 2006

B. Com, Nagarjuna University, 2004

Work Experience:

Company Name: CogentIbs, Michigan, USA. Oct 2021 - Present

Clients worked: Manabadi, Favichat, Radio Surabhi, and Veg-o-Rama.

Role: Sr. QA Tester.

Environment: Flutter, Dynamo DB, Selenium WebDriver, Java, SQL, JMeter

Tools: JIRA, Eclipse IDE, TestFlight, P-cloudy and Postman.

I am working in Automation Testing using Selenium, API Testing, Manual Testing, and Performance testing JMeter. And mobile testing in live Web and App development projects.

Tested IOS, Android, and Web applications on different devices and platforms.

Involved in Requirement analysis, preparation of Test Estimations, Test scenarios, and test case design and execution.

Preparation of Test Scenarios and Test cases.

Executing Test cases and Capturing Test Results.

Experience in handling the JIRA board, creating bugs, applying various filters, clearing bugs, and publishing pivots for reporting to leads.

Identify, track, and raise defects to ensure the application is bug-free using a bug tracking system (JIRA) to report defects to developers and track them to closure.

Involved in Automation Testing using selenium.

Product Demo to stakeholders for product functionality that is deployed in the current sprint.

Perform API testing using the Get, POST, and, Put methods in Postman and test different scenarios.

Design and execute test cases for REST APIs using Postman.

Collaborate with developers to ensure the quality of the API code.

Extensive experience in Device Testing (IOS, Android, Windows platforms), Smoke testing, UI Testing, End-to-End testing, and Sanity Testing.

Performed Mobile App Compatibility Testing on different devices, browsers, and OS versions using Test Flight Tools and P-cloudy Tools.

Guiding Team members in understanding Requirements and helping them clarify their doubts.

Quick learner, consistently acquiring new tools to enhance QA knowledge.

Company name: S&P Global, Hyderabad Mar 2014 – Nov 2017

Role: Sr. QA Analyst

Involved in developing test plans, test strategies, test scenarios, test scripts, and test steps based on Business and System Use Cases.

Actively participated in scrum meetings and reviews.

Created test cases and plans, tested APIs, and executed code coverage.

Identified and reported bugs using the defect tracking tool JIRA and presented bug reports for weekly status updates.

Conducted backend testing using SQL queries to validate data for the database.

Participated in Stand-up meetings, walkthrough meetings, weekly automation meetings with all other QA, and weekly assessment meetings with business analysts and developers.

Designs, monitors, and analyzes quality assurance metrics such as defects, defect counts, test results, and test status.

Involved in testing the compatibility of applications for dynamic and static content under various cross-browsers manually.

Experience with day-to-day work tools like Celsus, Metadata, and Missing document tools (internal tools).

Good Experience in SCRUM Process for product development. Cross-browser testing was performed on different versions of IE and other Browsers.

Company Name: Capital IQ Information Systems India Private Limited, Hyderabad Jan 2007 – Feb 2012

Role: Manual Tester

Analyzed and documented business requirements, documented business requirements specifications, and wrote Test Plans and test Cases.

Worked with the development team to understand technical design and architecture for test planning.

Worked under Waterfall methodology.

Responsible for generating regression and dynamic test reports.

Responsible for recommending necessary changes and modifications to program developers.

Prepared required documentation for testing signoff by various parties as required by the project plans.

Updated Test Plans and Test Cases periodically to manage changes in requirements.

Maintained a Traceability Matrix to track the requirements of the test cases to ensure complete test coverage.

Connected to a database to Query the database using SQL for data verification and validation.

Interacted closely with developers regarding defects, and participated in tracking, reviewing, and analyzing bugs.

Involved in problem analysis, debugging, and defect resolution.

Worked on defect tracking and reporting in the test execution phase.

Authored user stories, acceptance criteria, and release notes.

Prioritized user stories based on the requirements gathered from the business, validated those user stories and translated those to the development team.

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